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The Good Terrorist, by Doris Lessing (1985)
Reinventing Discovery, by Michael Nielsen (2011)
Collapse, Jared Diamond (2005)
Whole Earth Discipline, Steward Brand (2010)
The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, by Jane Pynter (2006)
One of my favorite reads of the year!
History of the project is fascinating. Sounds like the habitat itself was
amazingly ambitious and well constructed, but the social organization fell
apart after that and there wasn't discipline in running the experiments.
Disapointed to learn how exogenous the habitat was regarding air
conditioning and electricity, really only focused on mass transfer. I don't
really consider the first run a "failure" due to air exchange; seems like a
lot was learned, especially regarding social cohesion, which I would
consider part of the experiment.
The first large chunk of the book is very autobiographical, and it's an
interesting life story. Sort of orthogonal to the experiment itself, though
it does give context for how the whole thing got off the ground as a hippie
collective, which I found pretty inspiring.
Crazy historical detail: Steve Bannon (Breitbart editor and Trump
presidential advisor) was involved in a repossesion of the Biosphere
facility!
Death's End (Three Body Problem), Liu Cixin (刘慈欣).
Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie (Rilke translation, 2002)
On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca
Not cover to cover:
* Manufacturing Process for Design Professionals
* Payment Systems in the US
* Google SRE Book
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